The most recent reported hail day was 2025-03-14 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Adair County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 4 inches, a grapefruit and 4 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2021-06-18 near Bridgewater.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Iowa. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2025-03-14, around Adair. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Adair County addresses inside a hail swath above your size threshold into a door-knock list you can export, scoped to your approved markets.
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See call-center options ->NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 28 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.6 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 59 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 9 days since 2022.
4 of the 28 days reached 2 inches or more -- 14%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2023-05-07. They land in the same month as everything else, June. 9 of the 28 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Iowa, see the Iowa hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Orient -- 10 of the county's 28 hail days -- then Greenfield (9), Bridgewater (7), Stuart (5) and Adair (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Fontanelle and Menlo on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Orient | 6 | 2.75″ |
| Bridgewater | 4 | 4.00″ |
| 3 Ene Orient | 3 | 2.50″ |
| Adair | 3 | 2.50″ |
| 3 W Orient | 3 | 1.50″ |
The season runs March through June: 24 of the 28 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (86%). June is the single busiest month, with 11 of them (39%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in July, August and October, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 3 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 11 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 2 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Adair. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-14 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2024-05-19 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-04-30 | 1.00″ | 4 |
| 2023-06-17 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-05-07 | 2.50″ | 3 |
| 2023-04-04 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2022-08-28 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-07 | 1.25″ | 3 |
The colored swath is NOAA's MRMS radar estimate of the largest hail per ~1 km cell; the dots are SPC ground reports. Yellow is about an inch, red 1.5 to 2″, purple 2″ and up (hail size vs roof damage). On this county's worst day the reports reached 4 inches, which is the purple band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Union County (30 hail days), Adams County (20) and Madison County (24). Adair County sits in between.
Union County · Adams County · Madison County
Back to the Iowa hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Adair County, Iowa only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.